Presenting Events As They Truly Are
Posted on 23rd Jun 2026
Somewhere in Lagos, on a humid evening in 2026, a man sits on a balcony staring into the darkness. The city is alive. Traffic crawls. Street vendors argue over prices. A church choir practises somewhere in the distance. A mosque's loudspeaker answers from another direction. Young people scroll throu...
Posted on 21st Jun 2026
Civilisations announce themselves through what they build and through what they leave behind. The Egyptians built the pyramids of Giza and left behind an architectural civilisation that humanity has spent five thousand years attempting to comprehend. The Romans paved roads that still run beneath the...
Posted on 21st Jun 2026
There is a question that no government official in Abuja will answer honestly, because the honest answer is too damning to survive in the morning newspapers. The question is this: if the rate at which Nigerians are being kidnapped and killed continues to climb at its current trajectory, and if the s...
Posted on 21st Jun 2026
There is a particular kind of moral dishonesty that masquerades as solidarity, and Western Europe has been practising it with remarkable discipline since February 2022. To scrutinise Ukraine's deep and unresolved relationship with wartime extremism is, in the approved discourse of Brussels and Washi...
Posted on 17th May 2026
There was a time when history had weight. It existed physically in newspapers, books, journals, photographs, public records, handwritten letters, archived footage, and dusty libraries protected by age, distance, and duplication. A government could lie, distort, or propagandise, but somewhere in a ba...